Vietnam: Actively remove difficulties to soon recover the coconut industry in Ben Tre

Currently, Ben Tre province has 78,000 hectares of coconut trees, producing over 800 million fruits per year, of which about 16,000 hectares of coconut water (Siem coconut) accounts for about 20% of the total area of the province's coconut garden. Ben Tre also has about 180 businesses and nearly 2,400 production and processing facilities for coconut products. Every year, businesses in Ben Tre province produce nearly 50,000 tons of desiccated coconut; 100 million liters of coconut milk; 40 million liters of canned coconut water; 30,000 tons of coconut fiber only; 12,000 tons of activated carbon… Recently, the production and business activities of enterprises in the coconut industry faced many difficulties due to slow export. The most serious thing is that more than 100 businesses that export to China are almost at a loss, slow to pay for coconuts from farmers. Facing this situation, the functional sectors and the government of Ben Tre province have made efforts to find solutions to ...